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The Dreaming

The Dreaming
  • Author(s): Barbara Wood
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1871

Australia, 1871-Following her mother’s sudden death, Joanna Drury sets sail from India and arrives in Melbourne to claim the property left to her by her mother-and to trace the mysteries of her family’s past. From her first steps on...

The Girls of Lake Evelyn

The Girls of Lake Evelyn
  • Author(s): Averil Kenny
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1958

1958. When It-girl Vivienne George flees on the eve of her wedding she seeks refuge in a scheduled lodge surrounded by the lush rainforest of tropical North Queensland. There, she is relieved to find that the small farming town...

The Golden Day

The Golden Day
  • Author(s): Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1960s

The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes...

The Good Parents

The Good Parents
  • Author(s): Joan London
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Maya de Jong, an eighteen-year-old country girl from the West, comes to live in Melbourne and starts an affair with her boss, the enigmatic Maynard Flynn, whose wife is dying of cancer. When Maya’s parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive...

The Guy, The Girl, The Artist and His Ex

The Guy, The Girl, The Artist and His Ex
  • Author(s): Gabrielle Williams
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1986

A rock chick. An artist with attitude. A girl with a past. A party animal. Four lives collide when one of the world’s most famous paintings is stolen. It’s a mystery that has the nation talking, but while Picasso’s...

The Heirloom

The Heirloom
  • Author(s): Julie Brooks
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 2024 / 1821

A surprise inheritance. A hidden past. Brisbane, 2024 Barista and budding artist Mia Curtis is shocked to receive a package all the way from England informing her she’s the heir to her late grandmother’s cottage. Feeling lost in her...

The Hope

The Hope
  • Author(s): Paul E Hardisty
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Future, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2082

The year is 2082. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster – sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything...

The Idea of Perfection

The Idea of Perfection
  • Author(s): Kate Grenville
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Karakarook, (NSW, pop.1374) a fictional Australian country town with a population of 1,734, the book is about two Sydneysiders-Harley Savage and Douglas Cheeseman-finding themselves and each other. Savage is a tall, bulky and reserved middle-aged woman. Married...

The Lost Man

The Lost Man
  • Author(s): Jane Harper
  • Location(s): The Outback
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Two brothers meet at the remote border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of the outback. In an isolated part of Australia, they are each other’s nearest neighbour, their homes hours apart. They are at the...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  • Author(s): Richard Flanagan
  • Location(s): Australia, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from...

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